Scott Griffith

Chairman and chief executive officer, Zipcar Inc.

You can drive a Zipcar forward, backward, left or right, but Scott Griffith – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Zipcar – knows how to take Zipcar straight up.

Since Scott took the wheel in February of 2003, Zipcar has emerged as the world's largest car-sharing service. In the fall of 2007, Scott led Zipcar's merger with Flexcar, managing the integration of the companies' fleet, technology and membership base under the Zipcar brand and service.

Scott has solidified Zipcar's position as the leader of the car-sharing industry, establishing a brand and customer experience that has attracted hundreds of thousands of savvy urban residents and businesses on the go. By forging partnerships with some of the world's top brands and largest automakers, and developing relationships with transit agencies, universities and influential city and state governments, Scott has fostered the emergence of car sharing as a new transportation category, changing urban life by providing instant, affordable mobility in London, England and 28 North American states and provinces.

For his accomplishments at Zipcar, BusinessWeek named Scott one of its "Best Leaders of 2006," and he was the recipient of Babson College's ELiTE Award for entrepreneurship. As a leading authority on the benefits of car sharing and transportation issues, Scott has been interviewed by the world's top news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, New York Times, CNN, CNBC, USA Today, Associated Press, CBS-TV, FOX-TV, ABC World News Tonight and Time Magazine.

Prior to Zipcar, Scott held senior level positions at The Boeing Company, Information America, an Atlanta-based provider of online public record information, and The Parthenon Group, a boutique business strategy and investment firm.

Scott earned his BS in engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and his MBA from the University of Chicago.